Metallic railway-tie



Umano' STATES PATENT Ormes.

EDWIN D.` BANGS, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

METALLIC RAILWAY-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,314, dated March 28, 1893.-

Application led March 14, 1890 Serial No. 343,853. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWIN D. BANGS, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Railway-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to metallic ties for su rface railways, and my invention consists in certain peculiarand novel features of construction and arrangement as hereinafter described and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawingshEigure l is a view partly in side elevation and partlyin section, of my improved railway tie. Fig. 2 is an upper side plan view of one end of the tie showing the locking mechanism for the rail; the latter being shown partly in cross-section. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section of the tie on the line 4--4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of one of the locking plates employed to retain the rail in position upon the tie.

The objects of my invention are to produce a railway tie which shall firmly embed itself in the road-bed and which shall be of such form as to facilitate the operation of tamping the earth under and around the tie so as to insure a firm support for the same; also to provide a stable connection for the base of the rails which shall resist all tendency toward lateral movement of the rails while the train is traveling over them. These objects I attain by virtue of the construction which I will now proceed to describe.

Referring to the drawings, A designates my improved metallic rail-way tie. This tie is approximately of V-form in cross-section and is formed with a flat top a. The extremities c, c, of the arms b of the tie are rounded slightly. The purpose of this construction is to permit the arms b to embed themselves easily in the road bed while the earth of the road-bed becomes compacted between the arms b and beneath the flat top a. Thus when these ties are in position on the roadbed all possibility of creeeping of the rails is avoided.

of its thickness, adjacent to each end, to form'v f a depression, as shown at d, the bottom of each depression d being somewhat wider (in longitudinal line with the tie) than the transf verse width of the base g of the rail B designed to rest thereon, one edge of said railbase fitting against the adjacent shoulder, or

wallf of said depression d, and beneath the reinforced and shouldered flange lr of a locking-plate E, secured to the tie-top a by suitable rivets or bolts, such, for example, as the bolt C (hereinafter more specifically described, with reference to the-plate D), and at a point beyond the other edge of the rail-base g, the depression d becomes shallower, having a wall or shoulder h rising considerably above the plane of the base of the main portion of said depression which latter is then continued a certain distance at this higher plane, as shown at t', and thetie-top a is vcut through, vertically, at this point,'as shown at'j, forming a square slot with a narrowerextension 7c, the portionj enabling the head m of a bolt C to pass therethrough, and the portion la being of just the proper width to receive the reduced and squared portion n'of the shank of said bolt, above which part n' the bolt is of full size and screw-threaded to receive a nut o, after said bolt has passed through a perforation p in the locking plate D, which latter, on its under side, is provided with a transverse flange q, of a size and shape to just ll the space between the described wall or shoulder h and the adjacent edge of the rail-base g, while the rest of saidplate fills up the said shallower portion rof the depression CZ and rests on the rail-base g, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby holding said rail-base safely and rigidly to the tie A. Both rails are held to the ties in substantially the same manner, with IOO the said locking-plates D on the same side of each rail, and hence to separate tie andi-ails, it is only necessary to loosen the nuts o and lift, up the plates D, When the tie can be lmoved endwise till the farther edge of the bases of both rails are free from the overhanging flanges r of the plates E, and hence 1 new ties, or new rails, as the case may be, can

be quickly and easily substituted for broken y or old ones, Without disturbance of the rest of the road-bed, and Without driving ordrawing a single spike.

Having thus fully described my invention, l what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a V-shaped railway tie EDWIN D. BANGS.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWooD, WM. Knus. 

